O’Kane Park

It’s a wonderful place for the kiddos. Also, great for dogs. My son has always enjoyed going here ever since he was two. What a great place!

Aptly named… four boys either dealing or doing drugs in the bathroom, half the parents smoking cigarettes etc. We will never come back.

Great park for families! We were visiting from out of town and needed to get out of the hotel and burn some energy. This park was perfect. Lots of space to run and play, an awesome playground, swings, basketball courts, tennis courts, and a walking trail gave us lots of options for exercise and play.

Perfect park for kids! Playground with all kinds of slides and things to climb and a whole set of swings. Lots of paved areas for riding tricycles and bikes too.

Nice path for walking. They have a flower garden in the summer that is beautiful. I small pond that attracts some wildlife. Picnic areas, basketball courts, a new tennis court and plenty of grass space. On the weekends people setup for volleyball and cookouts. Great Lakewood park. Also the original O’Kane house is still standing.

Great place to walk your dog, play tennis or basketball. Does get pretty busy with parties in the summer, but there is always still room. Would like to see vendors come by/​set up shop on the weekends.

Any park with a water feature is a big plus, bit o the whole the flat terrain limits the appeal. Its also bordered by a very busy street (1^st) and its dissected by another. Its better than pavement, but pretty bland.

I just posted a number of photos of the wonderful blooming flowers surrounding O’Kane Park. Our neighborhood is a spectacle of color. Check out my short blog on Your Hub at
Enjoy

I’ve lived near O’Kane Park for most of my life. It’s gone through many changes, most of them being positive. They have a little pond with a nice fountain on the east side of the park. They closed off and remodeled the area where the steps used to be. Just as well, as the water was dirty (algae and the like) and they didn’t want you swimming in it anyway. There are two large fields for people, dogs, and geese to run around and enjoy. There are two parking lots and some street parking (mostly on the north side). They have a fenced-​in tennis court area (3 courts wide, I believe) that is really popular with people and their dogs.
The playground is awesome, as Kym wrote. It’s fairly current and in really good shape. It’s fun for big kids as well as little kids. They do a decent job of cleaning up the area, so it’s not too common to find trash or undesirables in the play area or nearby shelter. There are a few benches placed around the upper playground. The lower play area has a few swings and tire swings, too.
The path around the perimeter is long, and you can take shortcuts if you want. People are friendly and will smile and say hi most of the time. Bikers seem to know their manners and will call out when they’re getting ready to pass a pedestrian. Crotchety old men may or may not yell at you for chasing the geese and causing them to fly away en masse. I’ve been here at various times of the day and in the evening when the sun is mostly down and I’ve never feared for my safety (and I’m paranoid). This park is just nice and shows the pride of Lakewood takes in maintaining its parks.

I think their slogan should be «O’Kane Park: Not Nearly As Sketchy As You’d Think.»
Or is it just me that thinks that rhyming your park with the name of an illegal controlled substance was a bad idea? At any rate, I’ve seen some sketchy, skeevy parks in the Denver Metro area, and I’m happy to report that– despite it’s poor choice in monikers– O’Kane park is NOT one of them.
The play structure? IS AWESOME. It’s remarkably graffiti-​free (no small feat on the West Si-​yeeeed) and big enough so that even when it’s crawling with ankle-​biters on a sunny Saturday afternoon, the kids have room to roam. There are slides for every age and bravery-​level, plus lots of tunnels, rings, bridges, and poles. If you happen to fall off any of these things, you’ll land in some soft, clean wood chips. Nice!
Aside from the playground, there are covered picnic/​BBQ areas (available to reserve, if need be), plus ACRES of green field space, walking trails, tennis and basketball courts, and a little pond. Dogs do need to be on leash here, and most people respect that.
Of note: the place can be crawling with Bitchy Belmar Mommies. Last time I was there, my 19-​month-​old had the AUDACITY to touch another kid’s sippy cup (the horror!). BBM came swooping in, antibacterial wipe in hand, nose all out of joint and practically busting a vein in her forehead. «Sorry,» I said, casually (because it was REALLY no big deal), «he’s in that ‘grab everything’ stage.» I didn’t mention that when you bring a brightly-​colored wagon full of toys and sippy cups to a public playground and park it right next to the slides, you really can’t expect other kids NOT to take an interest in it.
«Well!» BBM huffed at me,” MY kids are preemies, and they just recently got over being sick, so…“
In that «…» were implied the words: «keep your filthy kid’s germy hands off my stuff.»
Um, hello? A) You’re at a public playground, and that big ol’ jungle gym your darlings are climbing upon has WAY more germs on it than my kid’s hands ever will. And B) your kids are like, FOUR FREAKIN’ YEARS OLD. If you’re still playing the preemie card, you have some serious issues, lady.
Anyhow, Bitchy Belmar Mommies notwithstanding, O’Kane Park is a pretty cool place. Check it out!